Peace with Nature

Peace with Nature (La Iniciative Paz con la Naturaleza - IPN) is an initiative signed as a decree in 2006 by Costa Rican President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias which seeks to harmonize human actions and natural processes, thus minimizing their harmful effects on the biosphere. The IPN aims to reverse the local and global trends through concerted action by all nations, beginning with Costa Rica, but also seeking to challenge the international community.
The four explicit commitments of the IPN are: a national goal for a carbon-neutral Costa Rica by 2021; an executive order requiring all state institutions to design and implement an environmental action plan; a commitment to increase Costa Rica’s forest cover and the size of its protected areas; and the design and promotion of a curriculum of sustainable development and environmental education in Costa Rica’s elementary and secondary school system.